insignia bluetooth 4.0 usb adapter support

What we will look at today is how to get OS X to recognize this adaptor, and then activate the Handoff feature. This guide should work for any adaptor that has the BCM20702A0, but is not recognized under the Bluetooth section in the System Information window. The Insignia one can be used after it is enabled in OS X. To enable Handoff, we must get a working Bluetooth 4.0 adaptor at the start.

Luckily for us, it sports the Broadcom BCM20702A0 chipset which OS X Yosemite supports, but just not in the Insignia flavor. A cheap Bluetooth adaptor can be found in a lot of places online, but local availability of a solution can be limited.īest Buy sells at least one Bluetooth 4.0 dongle under their in-house brand Insignia model NS-PCY5BMA. Some work from the community has given us the “Continuity Activation Enabler” for older Macs and can even work for some Hackintoshes that have a Bluetooth 4.0 adaptor that is natively support Out of the Box in Yosemite. The requirements call for Bluetooth 4.0 and certain WiFi chipsets to natively enable the feature. The feature is designed to work only with newer model Macs and can leave some of us, including Hackintoshers, out of the mix. These are just a couple of examples of Apple’s new feature set. This method known as Continuity and Handoff allows a phone call to be answered on a Macintosh computer and transferred to an iPhone along with access to continuing to edit an email from one device to another. With the release of Yosemite and iOS 8.1, came a new way to connect the many Apple devices that one person can have.

Insignia bluetooth 4.0 usb adapter support